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7JDBST-BOEJOHDPNt(MFONPPSDPNt THE LIVING CHURCH ON THE COVER THIS ISSUE March 23, 2014 | “There is not one right way to begin a new congregation but there NEWS are key ingredients to make one 4 Holy Meals at Penn Form Community thrive” (see “Lessons from Four New Congregations,” p. 14). FEATURES

St. Philip's Church, Frisco, Texas, completed in 2006. In 10 Caring for Caregivers By Retta Blaney the foreground is St. Philip's High Cross, commissioned | 14 Lessons from Four New Congregations By Clay Lein in 2011 and created by sculptor Eliseo Garcia. | Photo courtesy of St. Philip’s Church 18 Up from Pavement and Puddles By George Sumner | 22 TWENTY MINUTES WITH SCOTT GUNN Discipleship and Celebration By Richard J. Mammana, Jr. 10 22 | CULTURES 26 Gnawing: A Song of Noah By Michael Cover | BOOKS 27 Six Lenten Devotionals Review by Giuseppe Gagliano | 28 Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works Review by Mark F.M. Clavier 30 Consultancy Skills for Mission and Ministry Mindful Ministry • Developing Faithful Ministers Review by Jason Ingalls 26 33 The Complete Introduction to the Devout Life Review by Calvin Lane | 36 Fear and Friendship: Anglicans Engaging with Islam Review by Peter Eaton OTHER DEPARTMENTS 37 Caeli enarrant 39 Letters 41 People & Places 42 Sunday’s Readings

We are grateful to St. David’s Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania [p. 41], LIVING CHURCH Partners Church of the Transfiguration, Vail, Colorado [p. 43], and the dioceses of Olympia and West Texas [p. 44], whose generous support helped make this issue possible.

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Holy Meals at Penn Form Community

Preparing for Eucharist on campus at the University of Pennsylvania does not always mean settling into pews. Depending on the time of day, it might mean chopping vegetables for dinner. Since February, Episcopalians at St. Mary’s at Penn have practiced “dinner church,” in which participants enact the liturgy during an evening meal. They’ve seen how the model has brought young adult new- comers to church in New York City. Now they are the latest of several Episcopal parishes to try it out. “This is specifically aimed at college students and young adults,” said the Rev. Mariclair Partee Carlsen, Photo courtesy of St. Lydia’s Dinner Church rector of St. Mary’s at Penn and Epis- Dinner church at St. Lydia’s has become a prototype for others. copal chaplain at Penn. “Some of Sunday and cook dinner to be ready St. Lydia’s formula, dinner church has these kids are from halfway across around 6. Some have already at- not always had staying power outside the world. They don’t get to go home tended an 11 a.m. service at St. New York. St. Michael & All Angels very often, and this can be a very Mary’s, but others regard dinner Church in Portland and St. Paul’s lonely place. So this, I hope, is a church as their commitment for the Church in Delray Beach, Florida, place where community and family week. started dinner church services within can develop.” The liturgy begins with singing, the past year but have since discon- The idea behind dinner church is candle-lighting, and a Rite II conse- tinued them amid poor response. to worship as the early Christians cration of bread. Conversation flows St. Lydia’s, where Scott says most likely did: around a table with food, freely as dinner is served and lasts congregants are highly educated prayers, reading of holy texts, and about 25 minutes. Then Scripture is people in their 20s and 30s, has sharing in the Sacrament. read, followed by an informal homily thrived. The congregation recently In the 21st century, organizers be- by Carlsen and an opportunity for started a second service on Monday lieve the format might make worship diners to respond. This is when peo- nights and signed a five-year lease more personal and inviting for people bond, not only around a shared on a 1,000-square-foot location. ple who might never attend a formal faith, but also the common experi- Other ministries, including a Bible worship service. That’s proven true ence of feeling closeted as believers study, a theology book group, and a at St. Lydia’s Lutheran Church, a five- on campus, Carlsen said. community garden, have grown from year-old Brooklyn dinner church that “It’s not easy being a student, es- the dinner worship. has become an inspiration and pro- pecially these days, and to be a St. Lydia’s meets some particular totype for others, including St. Christian,” Carlsen said. “So we talk needs of New Yorkers, Scott said. Mary’s at Penn. about that. And we talk about the Since apartments in the city are “There’s very little about the wor- struggles of that.” small, the experience of cooking and ship service that’s prescriptive in After the dialogue, diners clear the eating with friends is rare — and rel- terms of what you need to believe,” table and then reconvene for a ished when it happens. said St. Lydia’s cofounder Emily prayerful litany and blessing of the “Most of our congregants are sin- Scott, “so having a meal as the basis Eucharistic cup. It’s a format Carlsen gle and live far away from their fam- of the liturgical practice seemed like adapted from her visit to St. Lydia’s ilies,” Scott said, and for them dinner a really wonderful starting place.” on a summer night last year, as part church “is a way of being nourished At St. Mary’s at Penn, diners arrive of a group of clergy. in a group.” at the parish hall at 5:30 p.m. on a While some have tried to replicate G. Jeffrey MacDonald

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Dean Hall: Disturb the Peace Episcopalians are obliged to violate resistance to racism and argued that Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laure- earthly laws in order to advance the citizens have a responsibility to ate. higher law established by God, the break unjust laws. Historians count King delivered a sermon at the dean of Washington National Cathe- it among the most significant docu- cathedral on March 31, 1968, and dral said on February 24. During a ments of the civil rights era. was assassinated four days later in panel on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Hall, dean of Washington National Memphis. Walter Isaacson, president “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the Cathedral since October 2012, said and CEO of the Aspen Institute, Very Rev. Gary R. Hall cited the ac- that King has inspired him through- moderated the discussion. tions of Episcopalians in the 1960s to out his life. He said he came to the Bond, who cofounded the Student desegregate the racially divided church through the civil rights move- Nonviolent Coordinating Committee church. ment, and that King’s example had and served as chairman of the Hall said every faith community informed his decision to open the NAACP from 1998 to 2010, said that has to decide whether it is prepared cathedral to same-sex marriage, King’s letter was important to the to engage in “disturbing the peace.” which he announced earlier this civil rights movement — and to the Otherwise, he asked, “Are we pro- year. “He’s always had a big influ- broader American population — be- tectors of the status quo?” ence on me,” Hall said. cause King insisted on the need to “The church sometimes has to Other panelists — part of the As- act urgently in resisting racial injus- break the law,” he said, “in the serv- pen Institute’s “Around Town Series” tice. King wrote at a time, he said, ice of a higher law.” — were longtime civil rights activist when many religious leaders, while King’s letter, written in April 1963, Julian Bond; Stephen L. Carter, pro- supporting the fight against racial in- defended the strategy of nonviolent fessor of law at Yale University; and (Continued on next page)

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Global South Primates Want a New Meeting Members of the Global South Pri- within the Communion.” mates Steering Committee have re- The Most Rev. Nkechi Nwosu, rep- quested a new meeting of Anglican resenting the Church of Nigeria, did primates in 2015. not join the statement. “We request and will support the Peter Carrell, writing at Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury to call for Down Under, found the promised a Primates Meeting in 2015 in order oversight council especially significant. to address the increasingly deterio- “Geography has allowed us to de- rating situation facing the Anglican velop notions of Anglican diversity,” Communion,” said a statement from Carrell wrote. “What happens when seven primates, which they issued the theological diversity is stretched meeting in Egypt in mid-February. “It so far that it breaks? Do we expel is important that the agenda of this the minority group and depose them Primates Meeting be discussed and from being Anglican? Does the mi- agreed upon by the Primates before- nority leave the Anglican fold be- hand in order to ensure an effective cause we have had enough? Or do meeting.” we re-organise ourselves as Angli- The archbishops added that they cans within the one Communion ac- have established a council “to pro- cording to theology and not to geog- vide pastoral and primatial oversight raphy?” to dissenting individuals, parishes, The full statement is available at and dioceses in order to keep them livingchurch.org.

Dean Hall: Disturb the Peace is the only great document in Amer- (Continued from previous page) justice, were calling on civil rights ican history — alongside the Gettys- leaders like King to moderate their burg Address, Lincoln’s Second In- demands for rapid change or risk augural, and Roosevelt’s “Four greater societal discord. Freedoms Speech” — not written by “They didn’t understand that time someone in a position of authority. is not what we need,” Bond said. “We King wrote in response to an open need action.” letter to him in the Birmingham Carter said that much of the power News on April 12, 1963, signed by of the letter derives from the fact that eight religious leaders in Alabama, it was written in jail. “That’s a crucial including the Rt. Rev. Charles C.J. aspect of it [because] we saw a man Carpenter, Bishop of Alabama. It willing to suffer for his beliefs.” Oth- called on King to stop leading mass ers, he said, such as Edward Snow- street demonstrations in Birming- den “are not willing to go that far.” He ham, saying that they were “unwise also said that the letter speaks to the and untimely” and were not con- fact that beneath the American sys- tributing to the resolution of “our lo- tem of “injustice” that he was fight- cal problems.” The leaders added ing, “there is also a country that basi- that they understood the “natural im- cally loves justice. That’s what [King patience” of those who feel that their appealed] to by going to jail.” hopes were “slow” in being realized. According to Carter, King’s letter Gary G. Yerkey

6 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 Brackets of the Saints It’s that time of year again: break out those brackets, pick your favorites, and get ready to compete for serious bragging rights. College basketball? No, a tournament in which stakes are not as temporal as those of the NCAA, but instead reach all the way to heaven: Lent Madness. For the fifth consecutive year, fans of saints are lining up to make sure March excitement is not confined to athletics. They pick winners among 32 holy heroes and heroines, who battle it out for the coveted Golden Halo in an online tournament billed as “so fun you won’t know it’s edifying.” While hoop fans revel, “Why should we as Christians be sitting around giving up chocolate and eating twigs all day?” said the Rev. Tim Schenck, creator of Lent Madness. By day, he’s rector of Church of St. John the Evangelist in Hingham, Massachusetts. By night, he’s a self- described “huge sports fan” who loves saints even more. “This is trying to reimagine Lent,” Schenck said. “It’s all not all doom and gloom, breast-beating and hair shirt-wearing. What could be more joyful than a season specifically set aside to grow our faith and draw closer to Jesus?” That spirit comes through every “The authors know what weekday during Lent, Schenck said, they’re talking about — as two saints square off at lentmadness.org. After downloading free that holding the annual brackets, visitors vote for favorites pledge drive is an once a day and share their reasons in admittance of failure on congenial comment sections. Each the church’s part.” day, one saint is eliminated and an- — J. Clif Christopher, other advances, first to the Saintly author of Not Your Parents’ Sixteen and later to the Elate Eight. Offering Plate and Only one will take home the Rich Church-Poor Church Golden Halo. Last year, Cinderella saint Frances Perkins, who served as Labor Secretary in the Franklin Paperback available in Delano Roosevelt administration, multiple-copy discounts at took the Halo in a huge upset over www.vitalcongregations.com Luke the Evangelist. or in Kindle version via After humble beginnings on Amazon.com Schenck’s Clergy Family Confiden-

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Brackets of the Saints will have its moment, too, as broth- (Continued from previous page) tial weblog, the tourney has grown ers Charles and John Wesley see into a full-blown ministry. Forward whose pious fire burns brighter on Movement, publisher of Forward game day. Day by Day, spends a few thousand For fans, taking part daily dollars to underwrite graphic design, can be a lighthearted Lenten web hosting, and merchandise. discipline, Schenck said. The “The magic of Lent Madness is practice of boning up on PT 530 Following Jesus: Christian Discipleship that people start it thinking it’s a saints’ lives leaves partici- June 2-6 | Audit: $150 ridiculous take on Lent, voting for pants with a deeper appreci- e Rev. Dr. Peter Walker saints,” said the Rev. Scott Gunn, ex- ation for saints as real peo- Excellent teaching, vibrant worship, ecutive director of Forward Move- ple, not merely statues or guided re ections—an interdisciplinary ment. “What quickly happens is that figures frozen in stained glass. approach to the four Gospels and participants begin to learn more “Ultimately this is about faith for- Christian discipleship led by Trinity about the saints. And, of course, the mation,” Schenck said. “What we professors, including a quiet day. study of saints’ lives invites us to let hope Lent Madness does is elevate ST 610/875 Christ’s light burn brightly in our these saints and make them real in a Christian eology of Friendship own lives.” fresh way.” June 9-13 | Audit: $150 This year’s event brings a few An- The wider society is taking notice. Dr. Wesley Hill glican favorites into the fray, includ- Lent Madness has drawn coverage in An examination of the historic ing Phillips Brooks, who served as publications ranging from USA To- Christian practice of friendship with a Bishop of Massachusetts in the day and The Washington Post to view to how it might be recovered in 1890s. He’ll duke it out with Simeon Sports Illustrated. today’s Church. Readings from Aelred the Stylite, whose formidable en- “I love the fact that it gets a very of Rievaulx (Spiritual Friendship), durance kept him atop a pole near wide number of people talking about C.S. Lewis, novelists and memoirists embody this ancient Christian practice Aleppo, Syria, for no less than 37 the church for something other than in a renewed contemporary form. years in the 5th century. scandal or decline,” Schenck said. Other much-anticipated matchups Lent Madness “is something that’s Contact Dawn in Extension include the two great Catherines: able to get God into the broader con- Ministries to register, Catherine of Alexandria versus versation of society.” [email protected] or 800-874-8754. Catherine of Siena. Sibling rivalry G. Jeffrey MacDonald

8 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 '(',&$7(' Around the Dioceses 7267$,1('*/$66 (;&(//(1&( )RUPRUHWKDQDFHQWXU\5RKOI¶V DQGWKH3D\QH6WXGLRKDYHEHHQ FUHDWLQJDQGFRQVHUYLQJVWDLQHG Bethlehem Elects Bishop Rowe JODVVZLQGRZVZRUOGZLGH An electing convention of the Dio- your voice,” Bishop Rowe said to the cese of Bethlehem has elected the convention. “Collaboration requires Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylva- relationships of substance, and I nia to a three-year term as its provi- want to spend time getting to know sional bishop. The Rt. Rev. Sean you, hear your stories, and learn to Rowe will divide his time between care about those ministries for the two dioceses. He has been which you have great passion and bishop of the northwestern diocese excitement.” since 2007. Bethlehem’s seventh bishop, the Rt. “I hope you will find yourself wel- Rev. Paul V. Marshall, retired at the end come to a table large enough to hear of 2013 after a terminal sabbatical.

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Massachusetts Slate Grows The Diocese of Massachusetts has Lloyd, canon to the ordinary approved two nominees by petition The diocese’s 15th bishop, the Rt. in the search for its 16th bishop. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, intends The two additional nominees, who to resign his office when his succes- bring the slate to seven people, are: sor is consecrated. • The Rev. Timothy E. Crellin, The election is scheduled for April vicar of St. Stephen’s Church, Boston 5 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul • The Rev. Canon Margaret Ewing in Boston.

Maryland Adds One A fourth woman has joined the slate in Bolton Hill, Baltimore. of nominees for bishop suffragan in The election is scheduled during the Diocese of Maryland. The nomi- the diocese’s convention, which nee by petition is the Rev. Martha N. meets May 2-3 at Turf Valley Resort Visit us at: Macgill, rector of Memorial Church in Ellicott City. www.creationhouse.com OR call us at: 800-599-5750

March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 9 Caring for Caregivers

By Retta Blaney

n a storefront office, steps from Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater Iin one direction and the Clinton Foundation in the other, the Rev. Gregory Johnson chats with Joel Rogers, who holds his year-old niece, Malia, while Malia’s mom seeks advice in an inner room. With life buzzing along outside on 125th Street, the community’s busiest commercial thoroughfare, Johnson is ministry in motion inside. Few people know Johnson is a minister. Johnson’s “congregation” is one of the largest in the city, or any- where else for that matter. Nation- wide they number 65.7 million. Years ago they had no name, thinkstockphotos.com though they toiled long and hard. But for the last 13 years Johnson has made it his mission to shine a light on their identity. They are family caregivers, and Johnson wants employers, corporations, and most of all the caregivers themselves to recognize that identity and claim it. As he says repeatedly, they are “the backbone of the health care industry,” and it is his calling to see that their physical, spiritual, and emotional needs are met.

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study at Union Theological Semi- nary’s School of Sacred Music and the Juilliard School. He knew nothing about the health-care industry, much less a major health and wellness corporation like New York- based EmblemHealth. But when a scottwynn.com photo friend who was an executive of the Johnson company suggested that Johnson help it establish an outreach to fam- “The caregiver ily caregivers, regardless of their insurance coverage, he saw an unex- is often the pected pastoral opportunity. “Talk about the gospel in action,” silent patient.” he said. “It’s a huge investment and I am so grateful.” —The Rev. Gregory Johnson With three supporting staff members, Johnson leads workshops and lectures throughout the city, the region, and the world. With his team giver. Johnson does many one-on- he has compiled information one counseling sessions for employ- booklets and an 80-minute DVD — ees, members, partner associates, all free regardless of coverage and anyone else with family caregiv- (goo.gl/xxlOke). EmblemHealth’s ing issues. initiative has many auxiliary partners, including the Episcopal n all of his work he draws upon Diocese of New York. Ihis Christian faith. He was re- “Most people don’t know all ceived into the Episcopal Church in the wonderful things that are the mid-1980s and is a member of the available,” Johnson says. Church of the Ascension in Green- But if he has a chance, he will wich Village, where he supports the tell them. His staff, Johnson says music program. He also is a substi- with a smile, believes he would show tute organist at St. Clement’s Church Share the Care: How to Organize a Group for up at a garage-door opening if he in the theatre district. Although he Someone Who Is Seriously Ill is one of many could talk about family caregiving. was ordained as an interfaith minis- resources available to help caregivers. © Sheila The joke may not be far from the ter, he identifies as an Anglican, say- Warnock and Cappy Capossela, Simon & Schuster truth. Last year Johnson and his ing it was the prayer book that team put together 745 events, serv- helped him care for his son who died ing 213,000 people at civic presenta- of cancer in 2005, and for his partner (Continued from page 10) tions, health fairs, and in faith com- of 41 years who died of cancer in “It’s been a circuitous road di- munities. 2011. Johnson also belongs to Mar- rected by God,” said Johnson, 67, sit- “I would have never defined min- ble Collegiate Church and leads its ting behind his iPad in his tiny office istry in this way, yet it’s the core of it: pre-service Sunday Prayer Circle. in this neighborhood care facility, serving others.” Johnson and the Rev. Marion A. one of three established by Em- After beginning his day at 7 a.m. at Gambardella have published Peace, blemHealth in multiple New York EmblemHealth’s headquarters in the Be Still: Prayers and Affirmations: City neighborhoods. Johnson serves financial district, Johnson heads out Inspiration for Family Caregivers. as the creator/director of the com- for meetings, presentations, commu- Thirty sections, each a page and a pany’s Care for the Family Caregiver nity gatherings, seminars, city, state, half, include a prayer, affirmations, Initiative. and national committee meetings, and a Scripture reading, covering the United Nations, the International such topics as faith, gratitude, anger, t was an unlikely road for this son Federation on Aging, and many acceptance, healing, and renewal. Iof Racine, Wisconsin, who grew up other adjunct partners where he Only a few mention family care- Lutheran and moved to New York to brings the voice of the family caregivers specifically, so the book may

12 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 help anyone going through a trying blemHealth to invest in potential so- It: Know Its Many Faces,” a free day- time. lutions, resources, and tools. long seminar on family caregiving at Recognizing the needs of family “The caregiver is often the silent the New York Academy of Medicine caregivers is more important than patient,” Johnson says. “I didn’t on April 30, sponsored by Em- ever, Johnson says, because people know a thing about insurance. My blemHealth and the New York City are living longer. The traditional con- background was in theology and the- Partnership for Family Caregiving cept of a family caregiver — a grown atre, but I was given a blank sheet of Corp. Topics will include legal and fi- child in charge of an elderly parent paper and told to bring awareness to nancial issues as well as self-care. — is still relevant, except that now their needs. It has blessed me. I find Details and registration are available the caregiver might be retired as great ideas in listening to others. It’s at corporatecaregivers.com. well, caring for a parent who is 90 or the great gift of sharing our weak- While the seminar will consider older. And the concept may include nesses. It gives me more apprecia- contemporary challenges, Johnson caring for a spouse, for veterans, and tion of the doctrine of the commun- likes to remember examples from many other configurations, as medi- ion of saints.” Scripture to motivate him. He men- cine has increased life spans. He makes sure caregivers look af- tions Jesus’ final words as he was dy- Family caregivers represent do- ter their own needs, and assures ing, when he looked to John and told nated services valued at more than them that “it is not something you him to behold Mary as his mother. $450 billion, Johnson says. They also are going through, but something “That’s caregiving from the cross,” can represent a loss of between $17 you are growing through.” That’s Johnson says. “Can I do less?” to $34 billion to corporations, as what he discovered during his peri- caregiving duties conflict with work, ods as a family caregiver. “I kept Retta Blaney is the author of Work- which is why Johnson says it makes finding God in the journey,” he says. ing on the Inside: The Spiritual Life sense for a company like Em- Johnson’s next big effort is “Name Through the Eyes of Actors.

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March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 13 Cross on the property of St. Paul’s, Prosper Lessons from Four New Congregations

By Clay Lein grown to 300 average Sunday atten- cycle, from newly formed to firmly dance and opened its first building established, from meeting in a cafe- It’s not often that you find four new in 2012. teria to settling into a first building. Episcopal congregations planted • In 2008 the diocese planted St. Each congregation has its own iden- less than five miles apart. Yet here in Paul’s in Prosper. This mission tity and uses different language, but north Texas, the Diocese of Dallas meets in a school cafeteria, draws all share five key contributors to has begun four new churches in 11 an average Sunday attendance of success. years: 150 and will launch its first building • In 2002 the diocese planted St. campaign this spring. Diocesan Support Philip’s in Frisco. It has grown to • In 2011 the diocese planted The first key to the success of these 700 in attendance at weekend serv- Church of The Savior (COTS) in churches has been the full support ices and is building a 21,000-square- Allen, which has an average Sunday of the Diocese of Dallas. In 2001 the foot addition. attendance of 52. diocese finished a strategic planning • In 2005 the diocese planted St. Each congregation represents a process and began to plant my mis- Andrew’s in McKinney, which has different stage in the church life sion, St. Philip’s. It made an initial

14 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 St. Philip’s, Frisco investment of almost $1 million to allocate their budget, and structure Life Transformation buy land in Frisco. I asked Bishop their staff. It even shows up in how A third shared value is a commit- James Stanton what the diocese they describe their attendance. “Our ment to life transformation. This is was going to do for their next one ASA is 1 percent of the population much more than hospitality or wel- and his reply sobered me: “We don’t of our mission field,” said the Rev. come. It’s about empowering people have a plan for the next one. We’re Michael Gilton of St. Paul’s. Com- to see changes in their daily lives. spending all that we’ve got on St. ments like that reveal an intention- Call it discipleship or catechism or Philip’s.” Clearly the diocese was all ality to know the mission field and adult education, but at its core the in. That commitment continued as to see at least one criterion of suc- emphasis is on seeing the lives of God provided funds for three more cess as reaching the people around children, youth, and adults changed church starts. us. by Jesus. Support strengthened when the Much of this mindset was formed All four churches challenge peo- Rev. Canon Victoria R.T. Heard in the early days of each plant. Meet- ple to engage the Scriptures and joined the diocese as a canon mis- ing in a school cafeteria or a YMCA then call everyone to live more like sioner for church planting. She has expands the vision of church and Jesus. This happens in preaching worked tirelessly to find church opens new possibilities for express- grounded in the Bible and con- planters and keep the call to new ing ancient traditions. For example, nected to daily life. It happens in works always before the diocese. without a building COTS was freed marriage classes, parenting semi- to see the church as the whole com- nars, Financial Peace University External Focus munity. In 2012 COTS held its first courses, and many other teaching A second shared characteristic is Ash Wednesday service in a pub. venues. It is the focus of all chil- that each congregation has set its The service was featured on the dren’s programming and youth min- sights outward. The mission is to local NBC affiliate. “Jesus went out istries. serve others. Reaching the commu- to where people lived and ate and Most important is the discipleship nity is the primary factor in deci- worked and played,” said the Rev. that occurs in small groups. Each sions. That shows up in how these Joel Allen Prather. “Coming to a pub congregation encourages members congregations define their mission, is just us following his example.” (Continued on next page)

March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 15 Lessons from Four New Congregations

Church of the Savior, Allen St. Andrew’s, McKinney

(Continued from previous page) parish isn’t just the four walls of our Innovation can also occur on a to participate in ways that increase building or the boundaries of our macro scale. When St. Philip’s com- faith. COTS has five small groups property. Our parish is the whole of pleted its first buildings it launched meeting in multiple neighborhoods our community. God invites us to a preschool with a three-day pro- with over 65 percent of the congre- serve all people. gram that served fewer than 50 kids. gation participating. St. Philip’s has Active compassion not only serves Today the five-day preschool has more than 35 small groups, most the community but expands the grown to over 200 students. Only 20 using studies connected to the Sun- church. The people of a new church percent of the parents and students day sermons. St. Paul’s offers simi- serving in the community without an are officially church members but lar groups but adds a more intimate agenda offers the best public rela- all are considered part of the St. element by connecting people with tions any church will ever enjoy. Philip’s family. St. Paul’s has taken Life Transformation Groups of two that one step further by building a or three. St. Andrew’s hosts multiple Innovative Strategies school to serve the children of the groups for all ages in its new space All these churches do the things that community and then to provide a during the week. All of it is designed other churches do. They are grounded multipurpose space that can be to bolster faith and change lives. in the Gospel. They worship, teach used for the church’s Sunday wor- the Scriptures, serve their commu- ship. Active Compassion nities, care for their members, and God has done an amazing work in All four congregations are commit- build buildings. Yet all four are con- these four new churches. There is ted to helping people serve their stantly rethinking how they do not one right way to begin a new community in tangible ways. those things in order to be more congregation but there are key At St. Paul’s 82 percent of current effective in reaching people. There ingredients to make one thrive. adult members are active in min- are few sacred cows and all share There is not a best style of worship, istry. “We believe disciples are made an openness to doing things in new or a right location, or a particular in action,” Fr. Gilton said. And it’s ways. church planter. But these essential not just inspiring church members Sometimes that happens in how principles can help new congrega- to serve at the church. St. Andrew’s clergy spend their time. Fr. Gilton tions be successful. This list of prin- began a ministry that helped other has served as a crossing guard for a ciples is by no means complete, but community organizations to serve. neighborhood school and chaplain it is a beginning. New works begun It works with Head Start, the local for the local police department. in every diocese around the country school district, and the County Each role helped the people of Pros- in the years ahead will reveal even Committee on Aging to care for per see St. Paul’s as their church. At more lessons for growing God’s those in need. Even a small mission other times it is seen in new min- Church in our modern context. And like COTS has raised more than istries begun. St. Andrews built com- these churches will change the $21,000 to serve others. munity awareness by founding a world. At the heart is a passion to serve “Believe” 10K run to benefit local all the people God has put into a schools. It has since grown to more The Rev. Clay Lein is rector of St. congregation’s mission field. Our than 1,000 runners. Philip’s Church, Frisco, Texas.

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thinkstockphotos.com rtists are odd. They look at the same world that we do, but they see it at a different slant, and pick up things we don’t. I Arecently had breakfast with an alumnus of Wycliffe, a friend of FROM THE PULPIT mine, who told me about two Christian artists he was encouraging. At a nearby college they were commissioned to produce paintings for the walls of the religious studies department. The first was given the assignment of a picture of the Incarnation, the birth among us of the God-man Jesus Christ. Now the painter, it turns out, has a fascination with pavement and puddles. He walks around looking down. No one notices this stuff. He draws and paints them, including how they reflect the sky. They are simple things, easily overlooked. They are dirty, and trodden underfoot. The painting is called “The Great Mystery.” The baby Jesus lies on the hard and cracked ground. He is swaddled tight with a cord. He is confined. His tiny head is turned to look at two puddles, one on each side of him. In one a donkey has come to drink, in a second a lamb. In the puddles around him you can see a touch of the sky. Jesus is down at our level, bound like us, approachable like us. But we also are in God’s image, reflecting the heavens. A second work was a sculpture called “Crucifixion.” The artist found the trash bin where the contents of the school’s vacuum cleaners were thrown out. It was full of dirt and dust, which is itself made up of flecks of skin and hair. Out of this detritus the artist formed the body of Jesus on the cross. The message is this: he took on our dirt, which means our sin. He was the Son, but consented to take on our very body. This Jesus shared the lowly body of the actual people at that college. And where is the divinity in it? That God in his purity and power would say yes to it. I was moved by both, but I was also impressed with this: one saw the birth of Jesus in a puddle, the other the saving death in a vacuum trash bag.

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March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 19 and what was borne up was our crouched down to where we live in brokenness, us. Jesus Christ, and lifted who we are Going down is going up for God, up to heaven in his resurrection. It is and both together describe perfectly part of priests’ job to see ordinary what it is to be our priest. For that is and extraordinary things in these, what we as humans want: a mediator, the people God has put into their a priest, someone to guarantee us care, and to tell them so. In this, access to God. What we ourselves priesthood is a kind of artistry. cannot provide, Jesus Christ has. He There is a tradition in the spirit - is, says Hebrews, the one and only, uality of Anglicanism of what one the sufficient priest for us all. And contemporary author has called FROM THE PULPIT he has done so in a more mysterious “Easter in ordinary.” In the same vein, and marvelous way. He has come the Anglican poet George Herbert down to our level, the level of the speaks in this way of committing (Continued previous page) pavement and the puddles. He has the most ordinary acts to God: his in fact has everything to do taken on our dirt and our flesh, our Twith the message we read in the status as bodies fit to be thrown All may of thee partake; fourth chapter of the Epistle to the away, and he has offered all that to nothing can be so mean, Ephesians. We are all part of one his Father. He has raised all that, which with this tincture, “for thy sake,” body, who is Jesus Christ. We act - which means us, up. will not grow bright and clean. ually share one another’s chains, Now the important thing as we which means our suffering, our power read- Ephesians 4 is that he has done As a priest, the things you are lessness, our fear, the condition of all that. He comes first in the looking at are not odd, nor in reality being sinners, and we share the reading. And then Paul goes on to is seeing things in the light of what same hope. And all of this is pos - talk about how the news of this is most real, most true. But to the sible because there is one Lord Jesus priest, and the present reality of this world, to the way the world teaches Christ. Paul goes on to tell us what being lifted up, can come to human us to see things, it seems odd. The he has done. He has gone on high, beings. It is through the Church. It is things that shine with the light of which means to the very place of accomplished, says Paul, not in one the Holy Spirit, someone facing God, what Jesus in the Gospel of way: someone must preach, some - death with courage, someone raised John calls the bosom of the father. one teach, someone guide, another up from addiction, someone chal - But Paul goes on to tell us that lead. All of it is to move the body lenging a wrong in a costly way, going up, for God, is the same thing toward maturity, toward life with these seem like little things. The as going down. His power and glory God’s purpose for us in mind, outsider looks at the Church in its are in his lowering himself to share turning steadily toward him and flaws and humanity and sees things our lives as they really are. He has away from the mind of the world. as lowly as pavement, as passing as even gone down into hell, says this waste. But it is not to be so with reading and the creed as well. This riests are odd. They are meant to you. To accomplish this, you, like means he has shared your guilt and Plook at the same world as every - those artists, have to keep your eyes shame and separation and death, all one else, but from a particular slant, on things most do not look much at: without sinning, without losing his so as to pick up things others might prayer, the Scripture, the inner sig - oneness with the Father. For us otherwise forget. To be sure, every nificance of ordinary things, the going up and down are opposites. single person in this room is called spiritual weight of suffering. But things are different for God. In by God to be a witness for Jesus Now the trick of all this is that fact, when the Son goes up, he brings Christ. Priests are supposed to do you do not do this from some with him all that he went through, so for the community as a whole. height. God is on a height, but you all that humans suffer in this broken Priests are called to see God’s hand, his servant are not. You are down world. He carries all that up with his call, his gift, his warning, in the here with us, at the pavement, made him. The great hymn “At the Name lives of the people he has given us to up of earthly remains. You are as of Jesus” says that he “bore it up care for. The artists of whom I unlikely for this calling as we your triumphant, with its human light, spoke saw things that seem ordi- charges are. I do not mean you are through all ranks of creatures to the nary. But they could see more there. not intelligent, earnest, able; you central height, to the father’s breast,” They saw the work of the God who actually are. But when it comes to

20 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 witnessing to the forgiveness of sins time ago of ecologically minded hands a channel for your Spirit. and life out of death, we are unlikely Christ ians who called for the Because, finally, parishes are indeed. There is no being up to the discovery of a new kind of Christian meant to be odd, at least to the job. The unlikely source Woody life more attuned to place, to face to world’s mind. Together they are Allen reminds us that 80 percent of face relations, to a more livable meant to look at the same things life is showing up. The artist does scale. everyone else looks at, but from a not create beauty but witnesses to What they are trying to rediscover different slant. They are to look at it. Likewise, for you, grace. is the parish, even as parishes strug - them slantwise, from grace, for - gle to survive. Real spirituality takes giveness, resurrection. And when omething similar can be said of place through, not around, the de - they do so, they realize they are a Sthe parish. There is a spirituality mands of concrete physical life, chosen race, a royal priesthood, a of the parish, which must be of amidst conflicts in families and holy nation. God’s own people. As special concern to the priest. The people, amidst hard histories, in the God in his providential wisdom parish too is a case of “Easter in ordi - collection of individuals, seemingly places you among us, a people, for nary.” The world thinks spirituality thrown together, whom God calls in this purpose, it does not seem to us is all long silences and distant that place. Lord, what would you odd at all, but good and right. thoughts. And in this vein parishes have this body do? Where, sur- are unlikely sources — in fact they prisingly, is the indelible image of may seem distractions from spirit- you visible here? Remind me that The Rev. George Sumner is prin - uality. But in fact it is finding the here are grace and gifts sufficient. cipal and Helliwell Professor of signs of the Spirit in the cracks and Show me here your eucharistic body, World Mission at Wycliffe College, puddles on the pavement. I read some - ordinary, broken, offered, in your University of Toronto.

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March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 21 Discipleship and Celebration

TWENTY MINUTES WITH SCOTT GUNN

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The Rev. Scott Gunn is an Episcopal priest and technophile who serves as ex- “Congregations ecutive director of Forward Movement in Cincinnati, Ohio. A native of Iowa, he are strong when studied at Luther College, Yale Univer- sity, and Brown University. He has they are filled worked as a parish priest, as an IT director, and as a technology consultant to a variety of for-profit and nonprofit or- with disciples ganizations.

rather than Most Episcopalians have probably seen Forward Day by Day, but they may habitual know less about Forward Movement. Forward Movement was begun in the Christians.” 1930s at a time when the Episcopal Church was struggling numerically, financially, and –The Rev. Scott Gunn in terms of its mission. Unsure what to do, the General Convention chartered the For- ward Movement Commission to figure something out. The brilliant insight that emerged from this group is that the Epis- copal Church will be strong when its congregations are strong. Congregations are

22 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 strong when they are filled with disci- !"#$ !%&"' ples rather than habitual Christians. So Forward Movement has existed for almost 80 years to encourage disci- &"## pleship, especially through daily (&)% habits of prayer and study. !*$+)(,( What current Forward Movement projects excite you? This time of year, I’m always excited about Lent Madness (lentmadness.org), which is a fairly silly way to encourage people to learn more about the lives of saints and to embrace some kind of Lenten discipline, even if it involves laughing. It’s part of our effort to find new ways to draw people into a deeper #- !"# $ relationship with Jesus, realizing that ! %"# $ & traditional methods don’t work for everyone. #. &#)- We also have a bunch of other projects that are connected to discipleship. RenewalWorks (renewalworks.org) is www.stjames.edu/Conf2014 $& -"/01%& (#. a way for congregations to bench- mark their spiritual vitality — strengths and challenges — and have leaders go through a series of workshops to deepen the spiritual life. Sadly, attention to spiritual vitality is often neglected as congregations focus on institutional survival. We want to change the conversation. Summer Cassock Sale! I have heard from lots of families that they want to talk about faith at Budget Cassocks! home, but they’re not sure where to Ready-to-wear sizes! begin. Daily Devo is an email that (Custom sizes available at comes every morning with simple additional charge) meditations based on the daily lectionary. Every day has a meditation, Lined or unlined in a choice an action to take, a video, and a of four wash & wear fabrics! prayer. Individuals or congregations can sign up, and we’ve heard a very Optional cincture bands good response. Many people are long- available! ing for spiritual growth, and I hope $229 through June 30th! this can be a way to give people a daily opportunity to grow. (plus shipping and insurance as applicable) ^ŝŶŐůĞďƌĞĂƐƚĞĚϭϮϭy What’s your sense of the future of Suppliers of Church Vestments, Clergy Clothing, print media in our common life — Hardware Appointments & Stained Glass since 1789 not just in the Episcopal Church, J Wippell & Company Limited but in the wider Anglican Com- munion and in Christianity? Will 1 Main Street * PO Box 468 * Branchville, NJ 07826 there always be room for books? Toll Free (877) 947-7355, Fax (973) 948-8079 e-mail: [email protected] (Continued on next page) ŽƵďůĞďƌĞĂƐƚĞĚϭϮϬy

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Is technology really a net gain for print, but it won’t go away immediately. telling his followers, the current life and future of From my perspective, technology “Be not afraid”? Christian thought? — even social media, easy to malign What discourages I think there will always be books, just — has been good. We are able to con- you most about the as there will always be written manu- nect in ways we couldn’t until now. common life of An- scripts and oral tradition. New tech- My Facebook friend who serves a glicans today? nology might get the spotlight, but the church in Baghdad helps me under- Too often we set the older ways of communicating never stand the plight of Christians there bar too low. We water completely fade away. Last year I every day. I can pray for him and his down the demands of showed up for one parish’s 6:15 a.m. church. When I was a rector, social the faith, hoping it Thursday Bible study. That day every media helped me connect with the will be more attrac- person there was a man, studying lives of parishioners in extraordinary tive to seekers, but Scripture before commuting to work. ways. Through Facebook, I could forgetting that it is The rector asked everyone to pull out learn about a family member’s death, precisely the invita- his copy of Forward Day by Day. Al- a high school student’s exam, a new tion to take up our cross and follow most every man pulled a copy out of home, or a lost job. There are plenty Jesus that compels disciples. We give his jacket pocket or briefcase. They all of dangers and cautions, to be sure, up too easily on challenging relation- read it on the train every morning. It but I’m grateful for the gift of technol- ships, whether in our personal lives doesn’t require batteries, and it’s ogy. I think the church’s resistance to or in the Anglican Communion, be- portable. As a bonus, you can give your new technologies is at least partly due cause we forget that we have the Ad- copy away if someone’s interested. to our participation in a culture of vocate to help us reconcile. We settle We’re certainly doing things beyond fear. Ironic, isn’t it, since Jesus kept for mediocre liturgy, preaching, and

24 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 St. Thomas’ Church, Whitemarsh Presents: Stanley Hauerwas - Guest Preacher - Sunday Forum Leader April 6 Professor of Ethics at Duke Divinity School - Preaching at 8:00 and 9:30am - Sunday Forum at 10:45 a.m. in MacColl Auditorium. Ethics in teaching, because we begin to substi- the Gospel of Matthew: The most Jewish of the gospels, portraying tute the perceived friendliness of com- Jesus as a second Moses and dividing the gospel into five parts like munity for the transforming presence the Torah. America’s most famous ethicist engages us. Co-Sponsored of God among us. We think that our by the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. task is to renew the Church, when our call is to renew the world. Of course, Eric Metaxas - A Book Discussion - Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. I think the Church does need renewal, in MacColl Auditorium. Author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller but that is the means and not the end. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. “[Told} with passion and theological sophistication.” What gives you the most hope about - The Wall Street Journal the common life of Anglicans today? All are welcome and both events are free to the public. Anglican Christianity is perfectly posi- Bethlehem Pike and Camp Hill Road, Ft. Washington, PA tioned for the hungers of this genera- www.stthomaswhitemarsh.org - www.thecenterforbiblicalstudies.org tion. If we can embrace who we are — rather than trying to pretend we are “relevant,” whatever that means — we will be able to offer the Good News to countless people. My sense is that many of those outside our churches are looking for three things: transcen- dent encounter with God, relationship with a community of faith, and intel- lectually engaging teaching and preaching. These things are all in our Anglican DNA, without even trying very hard. Our ancient and reformed liturgy is spot on for many folks.

Your Lent Madness initiative has energized a large group of media- engaged persons, and offered many of us an opportunity to learn about the saints and the liturgical year along the way. What other things do you have on the drawing board? I would be remiss if I didn’t mention 50 A Wake Up Call to the Church Days of Fabulous (50days.org), a way to remember that the Great Fifty Days Men and the Church: Is There a Future? of Easter invite us to celebrate for a by Jay Crouse very long time. It’s a website with daily meditations and conversation. Pretty The renewal of the church in the 21st century will only simple, but my sense is that most of us don’t really live it up as much as we take place when men in the church are equipped might for the duration of the Easter to reach the unchurched man. season. We’ve kicked around some Men and the Church: Is There a Future? other ideas, and we’re always glad to leads the way to this renewed, local church future. hear others. In the same vein of lighthearted approaches to liturgical sea- Jay Crouse casts a vision of a promising future sons, we’ve also begun publishing Jay for all men in the life of the local church. Sidebotham’s wonderful Lent and Ad- vent calendar posters. We’re talking about other seasons there too, per- Available in Kindle, Nook and Paperback: amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com haps Easter or Christmas.

March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 25 Gnawing: A Song of Noah

In the dark ark. Silent down wombed deeply and buttressed I jonahed within a wood whale belly wait, Argive, cradled by the arched church.

©YaroslavGerzhedovich / iStock photo A darkness beholden. Indeed a terrible darkness to contemplate. Taken within to fast, and without: the florid gray rain. Her persistence made me wonder if the forty days had passed again;

why she inquired at the windows. This mysterious ingestion to stir hunger of another kind since I, prodigal prophet, go on skirting Nineveh.

And if the Deluge comes not yet Lord lead me up to Ararat.

Michael Cover CULTURES

26 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 BOOKS Reduce and Reuse: Lenten Devotionals By Giuseppe Gagliano Good Lord, Deliver Us ent is a season of lack and restraint, except A Lenten Journey for its abundance of devotional books. The By Leonard W. Freeman and Lindsay H. Freeman. L number of selections can be confusing and Forward Movement. Pp. 80. $4 they are of unequal quality. Many manuals are time- specific and discarded after use; others are trite at- Wondrous Encounters tempts to fill 40 days of spiritual reflection. After Scripture for Lent scouring through a pile of devotionals, I reduced By Richard Rohr, OFM. the selection to several that are not only scripturally St. Anthony Messenger. Pp. 143. $8.99 focused but also reusable from year to year. In Good Lord, Deliver Us, Episcopal priests Lent for Everyone Leonard W. and Lindsay H. Freeman focus on By N.T. Wright. Westminster John Knox Press. Thomas Cranmer’s articulation of the Great Litany. Matthew, Year A Each day in Lent begins with one of the litany’s 32 Pp. 174. $15 petitions, followed by a very quick reflection. The Mark, Year B reflection for the fifth week of Lent uses portions of Pp. 208. $15 collects for the Easter Vigil. These brief musings Luke, Year C take on a variety of topics, including Anglican his- Pp. 144. $15 tory, personal stories, biblical themes, and popular culture. This devotional is as brief as its ecumenical A Joyful Heart scope, and is particularly relevant to Episcopalians. Meditations for Lent Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent by By Martin Thornton. Wipf and Stock. Pp. 86. $12 Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and popular author, serves as a very accessible devotional manual. A Joyful Heart by Martin Thornton, the These reflections for each day of the season are based late chancellor of Truro Cathedral, pres- directly on scriptural passages, usually taken from both ents not a typical series of daily devotions the gospels and the Old Testament. Rohr wrote this following a lectionary cycle but 12 chap- book during a silent hermitage in Arizona, and he em- ters of about five to eight pages in length phasizes the experiential aspect of his writings. Rohr that deal with various theological sub- provides a “starter prayer” at the end of each reflection, jects from an Anglican perspective. which is meant to provoke the heart of the reader to Thornton’s final book can be digested at personal prayer. While Rohr’s theological ruminations the reader’s chosen pace. occasionally fall victim to psychologizing, this series of With a penchant for English wit, the au- devotions is accessible to a wide readership. thor takes a humorous approach to the- In his Lent for Everyone series the prolific bishop ology, intentionally following in the foot- N.T. Wright notes each full Scripture reading and offers steps of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis. a focused portion of the daily text in his own words. A The readings are more in-depth than most short imaginative exercise or a brief prayer follows devotionals and would be fruitful for each devotion. The author’s reflections range from per- group discussions during Lent. sonal stories of his work as a bishop to the art of plac- ing oneself into the text. It is refreshing to be carried The Rev. Giuseppe Gagliano serves as a through Lent in such a humble, imaginative way by a re- priest at St. Paul’s, Sydenham, in the spected biblical scholar. Diocese of Ontario.

March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 27 BOOKS Countering the Mall

Review by Mark F.M. Clavier communicating knowledge. He argues, therefore, that we need to think about how practices and habits can ecades of evangelism have come and gone in so shape imagination as to orient our love towards the Church without much to show for them. God. Second, he believes that the orientation of love DMost Churches have probably reached the end through social practices is fundamentally a question of their decade with fewer members than at the start of liturgy. For Smith, liturgies are essentially patterns — a gloomy prospect for those who embraced the of meaning-bearing practices, routines and habits that drive with zeal and high hopes. At times, one wonders produce and sustain social imaginary. who is evangelizing whom. So, for example, the Book of Common Prayer con- It seems that no matter what the Church tries to do, veys participants through the act of worship and roots nothing manages even to slow the rate of membership us in the biblical narrative as expressed in the Angli- decline, never mind reverse it. People, especially the can tradition. As we repeat these liturgical acts regu- young, have left in droves as they have found a degree larly, the knowledge of worship is inscribed in our of fulfilment in entertainment, sports, shopping, or a bodies (through the habit of attending church, sitting, quiet morning at the local coffee shop. Meanwhile, kneeling, standing, signing ourselves) as the story of those who devote their Sunday mornings — not to our faith sets deeply into our minds. But, Smith ar- mention their lives — to the local church are increas- gues, our participation in “secular liturgies” also ingly seen as eccentric by the ever-expanding popula- shapes our social imagination in ways we perceive tion of the unchurched. Why on earth add church to only dimly. Unlike Christian liturgies, however, “secu- an already overcrowded and busy life? lar liturgies” orient our loves away from God. Smith According to James K.A. Smith’s Imagining the sets his gaze particularly on that secular liturgy we call Kingdom, none of this should be surprising because consumerism, especially the essentially religious na- the Church is failing to educate people’s imagination. ture of such activities as shopping at a mall. Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Pierre Bourdieu, Smith argues that the precognitive mith offers an important contribution to the fruit- experience and perception of our world is “inscribed” Sful conversation about how to free the Church into our bodies and minds through our habits, prac- from an unhealthy Cartesian framework that invari- tices, and daily routines. Through these practices, we ably turns faith into a private, inward conviction di- come to perceive the world in a particular way before vorced from an outward society and essential prac- we even begin to hold convictions or develop theories. tices. Therefore, anyone concerned about those This precognitive knowledge accounts for 95 percent segments of the Church that seek to separate the con- of our total knowledge, and it therefore profoundly tent of the faith from the form of expressing that faith shapes our conscious beliefs and choices; precogni- (e.g., those initiatives that conceive of the Kingdom of tive perception in fact disposes us powerfully to act in God as an abstract product that can be repackaged to particular ways and believe in particular things. For appeal to niche markets) will find his argument in- example, someone growing up in Boston is probably valuable. going to be disposed to embrace a different set of More important, Imagining the Kingdom reminds convictions than someone growing up in rural Ten- us that evangelism and Christian formation need to nessee. Our belonging disposes us towards certain engage more than just ideas if they are to achieve any- ways of being and believing. thing lasting and meaningful. The mission of the Smith is a Reformed philosophy professor at Calvin Church is much more about connecting with and College who did some of his training in Roman shaping the imagination, touching people at the gut Catholic institutions, and he is classically oriented. level, than it is about rational arguments, experience, First, in agreement with Augustine, he sees education or convincing people of propositional truths. Accord- and formation as being primarily about orienting our ing to Smith, this is because our beliefs and choices loves towards certain ends rather than simply about are really badges that identify us as belonging within

28 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 Restoration Stained Glass Wood Stone Imagining the Kingdom How Worship Works By James K.A. Smith. Baker Academic. Pp. 224. $22.99 1.800.305.0959 certain communities of practices and narratives than the result of rational www.raynalstudios.com deliberation. When we engage only with people’s beliefs it’s not unlike fo- Natural Bridge , VA cusing on the pollution in a lake without ever addressing the toxic river that feeds it. If Smith is right, then the habits we encourage through the practice of our ministry, especially our acts of worship, will have more lasting ef- 029,1*" fect than the beliefs we attempt to %WOJSVEGPIVK]QSZMRKWTIGMEPMWXERH convey through our words. Evangel- HMWGSZIV[L]XLSYWERHWSJGLYVGLIW ism must involve more than the 5 per- GPIVK]ERHWIQMREVMERWLEZIVIPMIHSR • Clergy Discount cent of people’s knowledge and per- YWJSVRIEVP]X[SHIGEHIW • Guaranteed Dates ception while leaving untouched the • 3 Estimates with only 1 survey way they perceive their world and Raynal Studios, Inc A Division of • All Major Van Lines the communities to which they be- long. This is more than a matter of Restoration worldviews — and Smith is critical of those who over-emphasize the clash [[[GPIVK]VIPSGEXMSRGSQMRJS$GPIVK]VIPSGEXMSRGSQStained Glass of worldviews — because it seeks to Wood take seriously the daily experience of LICHTEN CRAIG DONALDSON ARCHITECTS, LLP belonging in the world out of which Stone worldviews emerge. As such, Smith’s HISTORIC PRESERVATION approach is deeply incarnational, tak- MASTER PLANNING & ing seriously that we are intelligent CONDITIONS SURVEY bodies rather than detached minds. LITURGICAL DESIGN 1.800.305.0959 Imagining the Kingdom builds on INTERIOR DESIGN the groundwork of Desiring the ENERGY ANALYSIS www.raynalstudios.com Kingdom to develop some wonderful GRANTS & CAPITAL insights that have enriched my own CAMPAIGN ASSISTANCE Natural Bridge , VA thinking tremendously. I eagerly await the third volume in James K.A. “Young Christ in the Temple” - Restored 2013 Smith’s Cultural Liturgies series. His Calvary U. M.C., Martinsburg WV is an important voice to heed as churches strive to discern their role and mission within our consumer KEVIN LICHTEN, AIA world. JOAN CRAIG, AIA, LEED AP BARRY DONALDSON, AIA, LEED AP The Rev. Mark F.M. Clavier is the author of Rescuing the Church from Consumerism (SPCK, 2013).

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34 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 The American Study Program Oxford, England August 6-12, 2014 lection of advice for a noble woman, Louise de Charmoisy, but after it fell “Christianity in the 21st Century” into the hands of her Jesuit spiritual How do we, as Christians, relate to the challenges of our time? director, Francis was prevailed upon Located at historic St. Edmund Hall, this unique conference offers lectures to publish it. combined with ample time to enjoy the university city and surrounding areas. It first appeared in 1609 and was revised three more times, the final Cost: $1,800 (All Inclusive) edition appearing in 1619. Francis Conference Speakers: (1567-1622) endeavored through the The Rev’d John Maxwell Kerr: Founder and former Warden of the Society whole of his ministry, as a missionary of Ordained Scientists. Fr. Kerr has taught at Oxford University and Winchester in the northern Protestant region of College, and currently serves at Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, and is the Episcopal Chaplain to the College of William and Mary. the Duchy of Savoy and in his unusual role as displaced bishop of Geneva, to The Rev’d. Dr. Keith Ward: British cleric, philosopher, theologian, scholar, strengthen devotion, to encourage and author of over 20 books. Dr. Ward is a Fellow of the British Academy, former Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford everyday women and men in their and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. prayer life, and to make accessible to them the best of Christian asceticism. Canon Trevor Dennis: Former Vice Dean and Canon Chancellor at Chester Cathedral. Canon Dennis was tutor in Old Testament Studies at Salisbury He even defined devotion, as John- and Wells Theological College and has authored several books examining Julian explains, not as the multiplica- the relevance of Biblical stories to our own lives. tion of rote prayers but as a simple, true, serious, and abiding love of God. Registration Deposit: $300 (non refundable) It should come as no surprise that Contact: Susan Allen, Program Director the traditional Dionysian ways of Pur- Phone: (757) 784-2945 E-mail: [email protected] gation, Illumination, and Unification www.americanstudyoxford.com stand behind the five parts of the In- troduction. In the verso page commentary John-Julian walks the reader through Francis’s discussion of how The original social one disconnects from the proclivities of sin, instruction on how to raise the soul closer to God in prayer and networking site. sacrament, the development of the virtues, how to avoid temptation, and finally how to form resolutions to remain in the devout life. As in the other “complete” works, Fr. John-Julian gives the reader a Hendersonville, NC grand running commentary, a clear introduction attending to the historical, literary, and theological contexts, and GFFJK a delightful appendix filled with short 86th Annual Christian Formation Conference anecdotes of notable figures who ben- Keynoter: Walter Brueggemann efited from the Introduction, includ- Theme: Face to Face ing Wesley, Law, Newman, and the Dates: June 9-13, 2014 last two popes. This edition will prove very useful — the intention of de Sales and his modern translator, John- Four days of learning, fellowship, refreshment and Julian — in the mission field today. renewal with some of the Church’s top educators. Come face to face with God and each other in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Rev. Calvin Lane is affiliate professor at Nashotah House and priest-in- charge of St. Mary’s Church, Franklin, Learn more at kanuga.org/christianformation Louisiana.

March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 35 Fear and plexity, and the Church can make a Dig Deeper real difference by not slipping into the Friendship easy generalizations of contemporary Anglicans Engaging BOOKS with Muslims political discourse. The Church can with Islam also practice what Frances Ward, now Edited by Frances Ward his is the second book by the dean of St. Edmundsbury, calls public and Sarah Coakley. Littlemore Group, which Sarah friendship, rather than engage simply Continuum. TCoakley describes in the fore- in private relationships. Christians Pp. xiv + 154. $22.95 word as “a number of Anglican clerics have the ability to model what we who have devoted themselves simul- hope the broader community will taneously to scholarship and to the come to embody. engagement at its best. It is full of demands of ordinary parish life” (p. There is no papering over of real fresh insight and a willingness to risk vii). The first was the thoughtful re- difference and difficulty. In a fascinat- new ventures, while being firmly flection on the priesthood, Praying ing conversation, one priest remarks grounded in classical Christian theol- for England. that both “the Christian and the Mus- ogy and self-understanding. Interfaith This is an important and imagina- lim faiths make universal claims, and engagement is challenging but crucial tive book. Although its context is that this has been made explicit” in the in- work. The paradigms of relationships of the Church of England, anyone interfaith project in which he is in- between the great religious traditions terested or involved in relations be- volved. on which we have relied till now are tween Anglicanism and Islam, espe- In Britain, as Philip Lewis observes, bankrupt. If we know one thing, we cially at the parish level, will benefit “different cities have quite distinct know of the persistence of religion, immensely from the reflections here. profiles” when it comes to their Mus- and the forging of a new paradigm be- Crucial to any relationship with Is- lim populations, and it would not sur- tween us is vital for the future of the lam is the understanding that Islam prise me if that were also the case in human family. and Muslims are as diverse as Chris- North America. Here too Christians This book takes some bold steps in tians. As Ian Wallis says, “Muslims are can bring a sensitivity to our public the right direction. no more homogeneous than Chris- understanding of the nuances of Is- The Very Rev. Peter Eaton tians.” There can be no progress with- lamic faith, practice, and culture. Denver out an acknowledgment of this com- This book is evidence of interfaith

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(Continued from previous page) (ARC-USA): watch for an agreed statement on As a missionary myself several years later, serv- “Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment” this spring; ing in South Africa, I recall embarking on a day- and first visits to several parishes — All Souls, trip with a bishop friend who suggested that we Oklahoma City; Trinity Cathedral, Columbia; and start our journey with the rosary. “Whenever I All Saints, Chevy Chase. drive around my diocese,” he told me, “I always I did a lot of praying on the road, right the way pray the rosary with whomever is with me in the along. I followed the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glori- car. I don’t ask for permission, but simply invite ous mysteries, and I held the special intentions of them to join in,” he laughed. And we both were folks I had just been with and for whom I had pleased to find that our temporary home, the Col- promised to pray. When I remembered I prayed lege of the Transfiguration, still rang the Angelus the Angelus at noon and 6. bell twice daily, at noon and at 6 p.m., an apparent As we travel, and as we arrive again at home, our remnant of Anglo-Catholic origins. I didn’t notice missionary vocation remains the same. We are pil- an observable piety around the practice, but since grims on a journey. We are called out of ourselves my class started at noon, I told my students we and sent to follow the incarnated and crucified would begin by reciting the Angelus, which we One, to share the good news of his gospel with the did. nations. Our job is to say yes, not knowing where At THE LIVING CHURCH, our offices sit alongside we are being led. Fiat: Let it be done; so be it; Milwaukee’s Cathedral Church of All Saints where amen. the Angelus is rung twice each day. And because I Christopher Wells live across the street, there is no escaping the bells. At work and at home, I stop what I am doing, stand, and pray for the grace to be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

hat might this mean? The unmistakable subject, and principal actor, of the An- Wgelus — and of the Rosary — is the Word of God himself. All is ordered to his arrival and its consequences, and Mary’s Fiat subsists in surrender. Be it unto me according to thy Word, she says, as prologue to the third versicle: And the Word was made flesh: And dwelt among us. As we repeat these words, taking them to heart, we follow in the foot- steps of Mary and Jesus, even to his cross and passion on the way to glorious resurrection. It’s Ash Wednesday and I’m just back from a long road trip that took me on LIVING CHURCH business to Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C. I can’t list all of the faithful folks whom I met and with whom I engaged in ministry, fed by worship and mutual encouragement. (If you’re on Facebook, you can see a few of the photos I snapped along the way; visit is.gd/FacebookCSW.) I am truly thankful to the saints who provided extraordinary hospitality. The trip included an organizing meeting of the Cranmer Forum, being a collocation of younger leaders: stay tuned (cranmerinstitute.org); the conclusion of the current round of the Angli- can-Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S. LETTERS

Remember the Presentation The review of Stephen Dykes Bower [TLC, Feb. 9] introduced me to an architect whose work I have admired without knowing anything of the person. The cover article on Old St. Paul’s caught me up on a church where I had occasionally worshiped while living in Baltimore more than 50 years ago. And the article on gam- ing gave me background on the issue in a neighboring diocese where I have many friends. But I was disappointed on turning to Sunday’s Readings to find reflections for Feb. 2 that were replaced throughout the Church (unless there are parishes that actually depend on this column when preparing their services) by the readings for the Presentation. The Rev. Wm. D. Loring livingchurch.org Danbury, Connecticut

Five Women’s Backstory I was pleased to see Grace Sears’s review of Five Women [TLC, March 9], which I “midwifed.” I discovered it at the Community of Grandchamp convent in Switzerland, recruited Dennis Wienk to translate it, and (after 20 years of not finding a publisher) suggested Wipf and Stock. I also tracked down the author, who was very glad to give permission. It is her first book to appear in English. Dennis went on to translate her book on three Hebrew prophet- esses, which Wipf and Stock has issued as Three Women of Hope, and he is now working on her book on Esther. Five Women caught my eye because it included Hagar, and the author has consulted Islamic sources as well as Jewish. Leah is also often overlooked, but she gave Jacob more sons than Rachel and is the ancestor of Jesus. The Rev. Lawrence Crumb Eugene, Oregon

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Thomas Graves III, Dallas, Texas Knowing God, U.S. Air Force he studied at Carrie Boren Headington, Dallas, Texas Benitez the University of the South’s School of Theology. The Rev. Dr. Charles Henery, and Making He was ordained priest in 1958, and Delafield, Wis. served at two parishes in Florida and at The Rev. Jordan Hylden, Columbia, S.C. St. John’s Cathedral in Jacksonville and Him Known The Rev. Jay C. James, Raleigh, N.C. at Grace Church in Ocala. Rooting all things in worship, St. His years at Grace were marked by David A. Kalvelage, Pewaukee, Wis. David’s Church, Radnor, 3,000 tensions of the civil rights movement. Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, La Porte, Ind. Bishop Benitez received threats and strong, offers a wide variety of hate messages as he stood against seg- The Rev. Dr. Russell Levenson, Jr., opportunities for our parish fam- regation, integrating his parish school Houston, Texas ily to grow in their faith and put before the public school system did the The Rt. Rev. Edward S. Little II, their faith in action week by week, same. When the public schools’ teachers South Bend, Ind. both at home and in the world. later went on strike, he was asked by Our church’s shared life extends both sides to act as mediator. The Rt. Rev. D. Bruce MacPherson, Edmond, Okla. He was elected bishop in 1980 and into served in that office until 1995. Bishop Richard J. Mammana, Jr., • learning for all ages Benitez was a friend of the popular re- New Haven, Conn. • 55 individual ministries newal movement in the Church and The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, • outreach into the wider early in his episcopacy, he conducted a Springfield, Ill. Venture in Mission campaign to support community and world. domestic and world mission. The Rt. Rev. Steven A. Miller, Whether it is packaging basic Milwaukee, Wis. Bishop Benitez also brought a focus essentials for low-income chil- on the changing demographics in Texas. The Rev. Jonathan Mitchican, Drexel Hill, Pa. dren, assisting building for our While he coped with challenges brought Daniel Muth, Leland, N.C. companion parish in Guatemala, by the recession in the late 1980s, the collapse of the oil business and the re- The Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi, or supporting the housing, feed- sulting banking crisis, he laid the foun- Bujumbura, Burundi ing, and education of 1,600 stu- dations for Spanish-speaking ministry in The Rev. Canon Dr. Michael Perko, dents at schools in Uganda, we the Diocese, opening the first Hispanic El Paso, Texas continue to live into our three- missions, recruiting Spanish-speaking David R. Pitts, Baton Rouge, La. centuries-old mission. clergy and appointing the first Hispanic missioner for the Province. He re- Dr. Colin Podmore, London, England St. David’s Episcopal Church sponded to the increasing Hispanic pop- The Rev. Dr. Michael Nai Chiu Poon, 763 S. Valley Forge Road ulations’ needs by establishing El Buen Singapore Wayne, PA 19087 Samaritano, a diocesan social service 610.688.7947 agency in Austin. The Rev. Nicholas T. Porter, West Brattleboro, Vt. The bishop’s wife of 63 years, Joanne, www.stdavidschurch.org preceded him in death. He is survived by The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, Toronto, Ont. daughters Jennifer Benitez Shand, Leslie IVING HURCH Kenneth A. Ross III, Grand Rapids, Mich. A L C Sponsor Anne Benitez, and Deborah Benitez Smith, and six grandsons. Dr. Grace Sears, Richmond, Ky. The Very Rev. Dr. Graham M. Smith, The Rev. Chester E. Falby, a priest Jerusalem for 62 years, died January 12. He was Miriam K. Stauff, Wauwatosa, Wis. 87. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, he The Rev. Canon E. Mark Stevenson, was a graduate of the University of Mas- Dallas, Texas sachusetts, Church Divinity School of the Dr. Shirleen S. Wait, Atlantic Beach, Fla. Pacific, and General Theological Semi- Dr. Christopher Wells, Milwaukee, Wis. The LIvIng ChurCh relies on the generous support of readers like you to fulfill our mission. (Continued on page 44) To learn more about how you can contribute to the mission of T he LIvIng ChurCh, please visit livingchurch.org/donate. March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 41 SUNDAY’S READINGS 3 Lent, March 23 THE | LIVING CHU RCH Ex. 17:1-7 • Ps. 95 • Rom. 5:1-11 • John 4:5-42 VoLUME 248 • NUMBER 6 Water EDIToRIAL Executive Director and Editor he Venite closes with this warn- In our need, we may ask, “Where do Christopher Wells [email protected] • Ext. 1240 ing: “Harden not your heart, as you get that living water?” Jesus Managing Editor T John Schuessler your forebears did in the wilderness, speaks to us just as he spoke to the [email protected] • Ext. 1241 Associate Editor Douglas LeBlanc at Meribah, and on that day at Mas- woman: “Those who drink of the wa- [email protected] • Ext. 1242 sah, when they tempted me. They ter that I will give them will never Graphic Artist Amy Grau put me to the test, though they had thirst. The water that I give will be- [email protected] • Ext. 1245 seen my works. Forty years long I come in them a spring of water gush- BUSINESS AND FULFILLMENT detested that generation and said, Office/Business Manager ing up to eternal life” (John 4:14-15). Ruth Schimmel ‘This people are wayward in their The cool cup of Christ is a miracu- [email protected] • Ext. 1244 hearts; they do not know my ways.’ lous satisfaction. ADVERTISING Advertising Manager So I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall And yet the cup is always given. In Tom Parker [email protected] • Ext. 1243 not enter into my rest’” (Ps. 95:8-11). a sense, desire and satisfaction have Numbers 20:2-13 tells a similar story, met and kissed each other. Jesus is DEVELoPMENT Development Associate Joseph Goldkamp although adding the detail about the water we receive and always the [email protected] Moses striking the rock twice, inter- water we want. Ultimately, this is preted by some as Moses’ celebrated about love. “If you thirst, drink from ARCHIVES Richard J. Mammana, Jr. • [email protected] fault for which he was forbidden en- the font of life. If you hunger, eat the trance into the Promised Land. bread of life. Blessed are those who BoARD oF DIRECToRS A “people with a wayward heart” hunger for this bread and thirst for President: The Rt. Rev. D. Bruce MacPherson, Edmond, okla. and “doubting Moses” may obscure a this font. Always eating and drink- Vice President: Miriam K. Stauff, Wauwatosa, Wis. simpler reading that invites a strong ing, they still desire to eat and drink. Secretary: Daniel Muth, Leland, N.C. Treasurer: G. Thomas Graves III, Dallas, Texas parallel to the gospel. “The people A most beautiful thing! Always The Rev. Jordan Hylden, Columbia, S.C. thirsted for water,” we are told. Christ is consumed and sipped, al- Richard J. Mammana, Jr., New Haven, Conn. “Why,” they ask Moses, “did you ways hungered for and thirsted for, The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, Springfield, Ill. bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and always tasted and always desired, Dr. Grace Sears, Berea, Ky. The Rev. Canon E. Mark Stevenson, Dallas, Texas our children and livestock with which is why the prophet says: ‘Taste thirst?” Thirst is a desperate need, a and see how sweet and pleasant the condition a human being cannot long Lord is’” (Ex instructionibus sancti endure. God does not scold the peo- Columbani abbatis, n. 13; my trans- EDIToRIAL AND BUSINESS oFFICES Mailing address: ple, but rather provides for their lation). 816 E Juneau Ave., P.o. Box 510705 need. “I will be standing in front of Scanning a series of maps for a Milwaukee, WI 53203-0121 you on the rock at Horeb. 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42 THE LIVING CHURCH • March 23, 2014 SUNDAY’S READINGS 4 Lent, March 30 | 1 Sam. 16:1-13 • Ps. 23 • Eph. 5:8-14 • John 9:1-41 Light od is light and in him there is fer? Why am I alone? “We must “Gno darkness at all” (1 John work,” he says to me. 1:5). “Everything exposed by the “I am the light of the world,” he light becomes visible” (Eph. 5:13). says, and, to add sign to word, he im- Simply, God sees the truth. “Do not itates the moment of creation, mak- look on his appearance or on the ing mud to form a new human being. height of his stature, because I have After I wear muddy salve for just mo- rejected him, for the Lord does not ments, and then wash it away, light see as mortals see” (1 Sam. 16:7). appears. I see. Of course people Thus, in the selection of leaders, wonder and talk, and I confess, “I am On the Mountaintop providence proffers many surprises. the man.” They push me and I ex- “Now [David] was ruddy, and had plain, “He put mud on my eyes. Then This year Transfiguration, Vail Valley, cele- beautiful eyes, and was handsome. I washed, and now I see.” What do I brates 40 years of watching Jesus reveal The Lord said, ‘Rise and anoint him; think? “I think he is a prophet.” himself as God’s radiant son amidst the for this is the one’. … [A]nd the spirit Ridiculed for being well, having vio- majestic Rocky Mountains of central Col- of the Lord came mightily upon lated some rule about permanent de- orado. God’s provision has driven Transfig- David from that day forward” (1 fect, I say in a joyous frustration, uration’s growth these past 40 years Sam. 16:12-13). The seeing light of “One thing I know, that though I was through many abundant blessings. Our God sunders every surface. blind, now I see” (John 9:1-41). church family enjoys weekly multi-campus God sees and exposes the unfruit- Not good enough. Excuse the ser- worship in our three interfaith chapel and ful works of darkness. It is shameful mon, and I promise it will be brief. community centers situated throughout to mention what is done in secret, “Here is an astonishing thing! You do our mountain valley, sharing facility, pro- and fearful to consider the gaze of not know where he comes from and gram, and service with Jewish, Roman God, “unto whom all hearts are yet he opened my eyes. We know Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, open, all desires known, and from that God does not listen to a sinner, Anglican, and Pentecostal faith communi- whom no secrets are hid” (BCP, p. but he does listen to one who wor- ties. We welcome members, seasonal 323). This would be absolute misery ships him and obeys his will. Never members, and friends from around the for a weak and frail and sinful hu- since the world began has it been Anglican Communion and from many man being if not for the deeper truth heard that anyone opened the eyes Episcopal congregations across the country that the God who sees is the one of a person born blind. If this man who enjoy the beauty and rigors of an “whose property is always to have were not from God, he could do active, outdoor lifestyle. We are proud to mercy” (BCP, p. 337). True, Jesus nothing” (John 9:30-33). feature our ministries to infants, children, “came into the world for judgment” He came again to me and asked, and youth as our premier congregational (John 9:39). He is looking and he “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” activities, alongside a robust commitment knows. And yet his seeing, his judg- I could see, but I didn’t understand. I to outreach participation locally, nationally, ment, his piercing gaze, is all love asked, “Who is he, sir?” He said, “You and internationally. We serve our entire and mercy and life-giving joy. have seen him, and the one speaking community by seeking to fulfill a true “The light shines in the darkness” with you is he.” I said, “Lord, I be- parish vision for Eagle County. We are a (John 1:5). It shines upon those who lieve.” vibrant congregation for a Living Church! know only that “darkness is upon the face of the deep” (Gen. 1:2). This The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration P.O. Box 1000, Vail, CO 81658 brilliant light touches the blind. Why (970) 476-0618 am I blind? Why do I suffer? Why has Look It Up episcopalvail.org • beavercreekchapel.com this happened to me? What have I Read Gen. 1. See the darkness first. vailchapel.com • edwardsinterfaithchapel.org done? What did my parents do? Je- sus gives very few answers. He does Think About It say something quite odd, however: “Let your light shine” is a jussive sub- A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor “We must work the works of him junctive, a command. who sent me while it is day.” “We,” he says. He is no doubt speaking to the disciples, but he has thrown his voice to me, his blind and embittered son. Why am I blind? Why do I suf-

March 23, 2014 • THE LIVING CHURCH 43 PEOPLE & PLACES The Diocese of Olympia 1551 10th Avenue E., Seattle, WA 98102 few months before his 90th birthday. (800) 488-4978 • ecww.org (Continued from page 41) nary. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the Born in St. Petersburg, FL, he was a graduate of Stetson University and Virginia The Episcopal Church in western Washing- Naval V-5 program in 1945-46. He was ordained deacon in 1951 and Theological Seminary. Fr. Harris practiced ton traces its history to the establishment of priest in 1952. He served parishes in Ore- law in Florida before his seminary studies. the Missionary Jurisdiction of the Oregon gon, Washington, New Jersey, and New He was ordained deacon in 1965 and priest and Washington Territories in 1853. Admit- York and was an archdeacon in the Diocese in 1966. He served parishes in Florida, ted by General Convention in of Newark in 1959-62. He was on a clergy Georgia, and Virginia. After retiring he moved to Lexington, VA. 1910, the Diocese of Olympia presenting team for Marriage Encounter and was a chaplain of the Order of St. Luke. Fr. Harris is survived by a daughter, has more than 31,000 Episco- The Reverend Chester E. Falby is sur- Priscilla Wood; sons Peter, Paul, and palians in 106 faith communi- vived by his wife of 61 years, Deanne; a Patrick Harris; three grandchildren; and ties. The geographic area brother, Clifford Falby, of Wakefield, RI; one great-grandchild. stretches south from Canada sons John Falby of San Diego, Matt Falby of to Oregon and west from the Salem, OR, Mark Falby of Aurora, OR, and foothills of the Cascade Moun- Paul Falby of Portland; a daughter, Casey Send notices for Titchenal; four grandchildren; and two Rickel tains to the Pacific Ocean. great-grandchildren. People & Places to: The diocese has nearly 400 resident [email protected] clergy, led by the Rt. Rev. Gregory Rickel. The Rev. William Cone Harris, a vet- He envisions a church that is a safe and eran of World War II, died January 21, a authentic community in which to explore God’s infinite goodness and grace as revealed in the life and continuing revelation of Jesus Christ. The Order of Julian of Norwich WANTED A LIVING CHURCH Partner Contemplative Monastic Life Clergy Vestments, Altar Hangings, for women and men Altarware, Clergy Black Wool Capes, in the Episcopal Church Holy Communion Kits, Stoles, Etc. For The Diocese of West Texas Churches in Newfoundland/Labrador. 111 Torcido Drive, San Antonio, TX 78209 • Community life Also supply clergy for short/long term (210) 824-5387 • www.dwtx.org • Individual silent retreat assignments. Graduating seminarians The annual theme for the Episcopal Dio- • Affiliation welcome. Contact: The Rev. Alexander cese of West Texas is “Rekindle the Gift of www.orderofjulian.org Daley, P.O. Box 511, North Andover, MA 01845 (978) 686-6858. God that is within You,” from Second 262-549-0452 Timothy. Introduced at the 110th annual ! diocesan council in February, the theme for this year will be grounded in Bible studies and small group gatherings within each congregation, during our Sharing Faith Dinners on May 15, and in each of our three camping programs this summer. During this season of Lent, the Diocese of West Texas has initiated a diocesan- wide Adult Christian Formation study entitled “Following Jesus: Initiation to Discipleship.” This eight-week online study includes Scripture references, reflections, and audio interviews with diocesan family members on aspects of discipleship. We encourage you to read along and be rekindled at followingjesus-dwtx.org.

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